Talmadge Quotes & Sayings

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor

At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the big ship, of the Lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers' wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

What I could relate to was the common fear that you are secretly so uniquely screwed-up that there is no way anyone would like you if they really knew you. — Tim Kreider

You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge. — Eugene Talmadge

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature. — Win Butler

When you are in love nothing matters except the bliss of love. — Debasish Mridha

In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything. — Marcel Proust

I may ... surprise you - but I shall not deceive you. — Eugene Talmadge

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs. — Hans Koning

You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them — Eugene Talmadge

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine. — RuPaul

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs. — John P. Kotter

You need to understand what there is inside you — Sunday Adelaja

And the wind was alive the day they put Jane into the ground; it played over the plateau and made the sound of rain in the tree and in the long dry grass. And Talmadge was relieved: for the sound hid them all from each other, and Della in her grief. Her hair blowing over her face as she stood beside the grave, unmoving. — Amanda Coplin

An onion can make people cry, but an entertaining novel can make people cry and laugh, and smile, and relax." by David Bishop.

"If fast food restaurants sold men, he would be the ninety-nine-cent special." Maddie Richards in The Beholder.

"Money is something about which one can be more principled after they have an adequate supply." Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.

"I have always had trouble recorking an opened curiosity." Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge. — David Bishop

She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control. — James R. Doty